Are you living with someone or alone? If you want to be easy biking distance to downtown (and WF and Watercourse and City O), I would check in Baker, Capitol Hill, City Park West, Congress Park, Whittier, Curtis Park, and Five Points. The Highlands is also pretty cool, and parts of it might be more affordable. We never look at anything east of Colorado (there are some great places in east Park Hill, but it's a little far for me), west of Federal, north of 38th, or south of Alameda.

There is a really amazing place for rent (we considered breaking our lease for it) in the same row as some friends of ours, and it's probably $1100-$1200. Beautiful, huge old two bedroom townhouse that's three blocks from Watercourse, with a patio and a bonus room and updated everything. It would be awesome for roommates if you are bringing one.

_________________my roommate spilled tuna juice on the bathroom floor while he was eating on the toilet! should i bleach the floor or just tear up the tile? - acrVegan Coloradical

Also, I am hoping to sign a lease for an apartment while I am out there, so if anyone has any suggestions for areas to look at or apartments that you know of, I would love to hear them!

I used to live in Capitol Hill, and now live in Congress Park, and both are fantastic (and right next to each other). Also, I second most of what Abbie said, and would like to add that Denver is the shiznazzle.

Has anyone been to the pirate ship? I want to go but I'm not sure if I $20 want to go.

You mean the exhibit on the Whydah at the Museum of Nature and Science? I went, and it was pretty cool. They were clearly pretty mindful that a lot of kids (and others) would be coming to see "real pirate treasure" and set things up accordingly, but there was also some great info on the slave trade, other pirate practices at the time, etc. A really well done exhibit. It might not be worth $20 on its own, but it also gets you admission to the rest of the museum, which is huge and well worth it. Also, I don't actually remember it being that expensive, but I could be wrong.

I live on the West Side (Las Alma, Lincoln Park, West Baker area), which I love. We pay $600 for a 1 bedroom (double-barreled?) shotgun duplex with a little basement office. And room for a little garden. It's close to downtown, Cap-Hill, South Broadway etc. and it's just a couple of blocks away from the Santa Fe Arts district, where there are vegan croissants. Our neighborhood is a little scruffier than say, Cap-Hill (where we used to live) or Wash Park. But we love, love, love it. I love, love, love Denver, I guess.

I don't have any advice on good places to rent since I'm doomed to live in the suburbs because of Denver's pit bull ban. However, I wanted to let you know that I'm really excited that you're going to move here.